Scraper toy



Nov. 19, 1935. M MERCE 2,021,429

SCRAPER TOY Filed June 4, 1932 In/uente@ aunq Patented Nov. 19, 1935 UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE 1 Claim.

My invention relates to childrens toys and has for its object to provide a new and efficient toy for children which will be both educational and at the same time be a delight for the children to play with.

A further object is to provide a toy which the child may operate without stooping or crawling and which device will be in miniature of a large road working device.

A still further object is to provide a miniature road working toy which will scoop up material in either the forward or rearward motion and which may be used to transport the material to any desired position where it may be dumped or spread from the front or rear by manipulation of the toy.

This device increases a childs knowledge of leverage and mechanics and develops his knowledge of everyday work done by road crews and at the same time will develop his muscles while he plays.

These objects I accomplish with the device i1- lustrated in the accompanying drawing in which similar numerals and letters of reference indicate like parts throughout the several views and as described in the specification forming a part of this application and pointed out in the appended claim.

In the drawing in which I have shown the best and most preferred manner of building my invention Figure 1 is a side elevation of the toy with the levers and handle cut off.

Figure 2 is a plan view of Figure 1.

Figure 3 is a diagrammatic view of the loading of the toy, dotted lines to indicate loading in the rearward travel.

Figure 4 is a diagrammatic view of the dumping of the toy, dotted lines to show dumping in the rear.

In the drawing I have shown the device as mounted on a frame work A, of U-shape, having wheels B mounted in bifurcated ends of the legs I and 2 of the frame A, and with the frame extended forward and braced by braces 3. The extreme end is carried forward where it is supported by a castor wheel 5, mounted in the revolvable frame 6, which frame is pivotally secured to the frame A, and the end of the frame is then turned upward to form a handle H for the toy.

Across the front of the frame work A, I mount a U-shaped support member 'I, having a pivot bar 8 pivoting it to the frame work A at the front and having the legs 8 and III extending backward to support the material handling scoop on pivots CI. 'I'he scoop has the bottom bent slightly so that the ends II are in alignment but above the horizontal level of the bottom I2 when in horizonal position. The member 1 is attached 5 to one control lever I3 by a link bar lI4 pivotally secured to the lever I3 and extending back to the member 'I with the bar bifurcated and bent out to engage both outside edges thereof to distribute the tilting power of the lever. The lever 10 I3 is mounted on a depending bracket I5 which is secured to the frame work handle in front of the castor wheel 5. The lever is provided with a lug I1 thereon adapted to t into sockets I 8, cut through the top side of the bracket I5 above the l5 level of the frame work to provide three adjustment positions for the lever.

Extending upward from the sides of the scoop C, I provide an inverted U-shaped bracket 2| with the legs of the bracket secured to the scoop and with the center of the base of the U provided with a socket 22 in which the end of a curved control link bar 23 is pivotally secured. The other end of the bar 23 is attached to a control lever 24 which bar is secured to the opposite side 25 of the bracket I5, on a portion thereof I5a, which is bent up the other side of. the frame work handle and is also provided with sockets therein to position the lever in any desired position.

In the rear end of the scoop C I provide an end gate 26 pivoted on a cross bar 21 from side to side of the rear end of the sides of the scoop and onto one end of the end gate I secure a control rod 28, which rod has a rod encircling socket 29 secured pivotally to the top end thereof and 35 extending from the top of the adjacent side of the member I through the loop I provide an end gate operating rod 3U, said rod having the end turned to actuate the end gate by engaging the end of the socket when the device is being dumped in the rear and the scoop is tilted to the rear. A cable or cord 3| is attached to the rod 28 to open the end gate manually when it is desired to load from the rear of the scoop. This cord may be attached to the handle or to either of the levers desired and is only used when loading from the rear, to open the end gate.

The operation of the toy is as follows:

To load from the front, the child operates the lever 24 drawing it toward vthe handle as far as 50 desired and leaving the lever I3 in the socket I8. This places the scoop in the position a shown in Figure 3, and the child draws the device forward until the scoop is lled.

He then raises the scoop by moving the lever i3 to the central position and at the same time levels the scoop by moving the lever 24 to the medial position. If desired he may raise the scoop to its highest position by moving the lever i3 to its socket 20. To dump the device forward he moves the lever i3 to the medial position and pulls the lever 24 to the extreme front end of its travel tilting the scoop down and forward. If he wishes to dump from the rear he moves the lever to the extreme rear position, this automatically opens the end gate by the action of the socket 2;- and rod 30. If he desires to load from the rear he moves the lever i3 to the rear position in the socket I8 and moves the lever 24 rearward at the same time drawing the cord 3l to open the end gate. He may push the device rearward to load the scoop.

Having thus described my invention I desire to secure by Letters Patent and claim:

In a toy of the class described the combination of a scoop mounted in a. pivoted support between U-shaped legs of a frame work; a castor Wheel mounted at the end of said frame work; control levers mounted to said frame work adjacent the handle end, bent bars to connect one lever with said scoop and the other lever with the scoop support, the first lever to tilt said scoop and the other lever to raise or lower the scoop by tilting the pivoted support, an end gate for the rear end of said scoop; a control rod secured to said gate having a socket pivotally secured to the top end thereof; a rod secured to said frame work operating through said loop to automatically operate said end gate; and a flexible cable attached to said control rod to manually operate said end gate.

JAMES M. PIERCE. 

